The hotel wake up call was at 4 AM, but I was awake 20 minutes earlier; just nerves I guess. Then my alarm clock went off at 4:15 AM and Catherine knocked on the door at 4:16 AM. It would have been hard to miss the plane. The hotel hostess handed us take out breakfasts. Our eager driver Mr. Wat was packing the van at 4:30 and by 5 AM we were pulling into Suvarnabhumi Airport.
After checking in, we sit on a bench and pop our breakfast boxes to find sweet carrot juice in a tetrapak, a hard boiled egg, a slice of ham and two sausages. I enjoyed it.
I am quite asleep and hardly notice the processing through the airport barely finding gate D4 in the kilometer long concourse. In fact I am quite unaware that I will be spending the next 30 hours in transit, I am in some sort of dull zone more akin to watching TV on a couch for an entire day.
There was no Air Conditioning at Narita airport in Tokyo; it was a bit warm.
So here we sit in Vancouver airport, waiting for our connecting flight to Montreal at 2 PM... It has been delayed 45 minutes so that puts us in Montreal at 10:15 PM. At least the WiFi is pervasive and free. So I will keep busy with my PC.
I'm I good shape since I slept for a while on the way out of Tokyo 10 hours ago. That was my attempt at setting myself to Montreal time on takeoff.
Don't order the vegetarian food you will get rice and more rice; even for breakfast.
We left the hotel at 4:30 AM Bangkok time and should be home in Laval almost 30 hours later after 11 PM Montreal time.
We have all our stuff from the cheap shopping in Thailand, I think we may have more carry on than checked luggage.
Our skin is really starting to dry out and crack being suddenly exposed to the cool dry air in the plane. I'm sniveling from a bug I got this morning, hopefully it will clear up by tomorrow.
This blog entry is on the 11th of July at 1:36 PM, Vancouver time; since I crossed the date line going east I will relive the 11th.
The shock of new pricing hasn't set in yet. We walk by a 20 minute massage for $30, in Bangkok that would have been an hour for $9; and so it goes. You can't compare, it was 20,000 kilometers away, in another world. Mind you a 95 Baht ($3.19) muffin in the Bangkok airport is $3.49 in the Vancouver airport.
